English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 5

For she thought she would never be able to find the Well of the World's End, and, if she did, how could she bring home a sieve full of water?

Who acts: mother · What happens: think, not be, find, do, bring · To what, where: Well, sieve · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 thought	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 able	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 able	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 able	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	cop
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Well	det
12	Well	Well	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 find	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 End	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 World	det
15	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 End	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 World	case
17	End	End	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Well	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bring	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bring	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 did	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bring	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 did	punct
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 bring	advmod
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 bring	aux
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bring	nsubj
28	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
29	home	home	ADV	_	28 bring	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sieve	det
31	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bring	obj
32	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sieve	amod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 water	case
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 full	obl
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	mother			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not is	would	mother		able property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	mother not said here	the Well of the World's End		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent well=Topic
4	do a condition, not said to happen	past	mother			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bring	could	mother	a sieve	home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sieve=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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